Zenodotus of Ephesus
First Post
I really, really, really want to get one of those tablet PCs for DMing. 
(Anyone use one of those, for anything?)
(Anyone use one of those, for anything?)
Dming with a computer
- Thread starter questionmark
- Start date
anyone got a link to DMGenie?
I have a wireless lan in my house, so it's really easy getting to the net. Not so much if I play somewhere else.
Pre-game, I use a lot of Jamis buck's tools for NPC, town, treasure and dungeon generation. The big thing I felt Jamis tools lacked was more inter-connectivity. I want his NPC's to auto-generate equipment. I want his dungeon to autogenerate monsters (stat-blocks with HP and treasure/gear). Almost all the pieces are there...
Using those web-tools, I just generate, then paste into my Word document for the adventure. From there, I just printed it out and ran it, but I'm working on ways to do the whole thing from PC. A wiki might helpful on that front, you could post segments of the adventure as pages (with hyperlinks to other NPC pages, or external stuff like links to monster X on d20srd.org). And you can fairly easily edit the pages to take notes.
I have a wireless lan in my house, so it's really easy getting to the net. Not so much if I play somewhere else.
Pre-game, I use a lot of Jamis buck's tools for NPC, town, treasure and dungeon generation. The big thing I felt Jamis tools lacked was more inter-connectivity. I want his NPC's to auto-generate equipment. I want his dungeon to autogenerate monsters (stat-blocks with HP and treasure/gear). Almost all the pieces are there...
Using those web-tools, I just generate, then paste into my Word document for the adventure. From there, I just printed it out and ran it, but I'm working on ways to do the whole thing from PC. A wiki might helpful on that front, you could post segments of the adventure as pages (with hyperlinks to other NPC pages, or external stuff like links to monster X on d20srd.org). And you can fairly easily edit the pages to take notes.
Mercule
Adventurer
Zenodotus of Ephesus said:I really, really, really want to get one of those tablet PCs for DMing.
(Anyone use one of those, for anything?)
I've got one. It does not "tablet" well with Java and, thus, PCGen. If you find yourself doing a lot of hand-written notes in a semi-random layout, then there may be value in a tablet, especially if you get MS One-Note. If you use PCGen or Excel (spreadsheets are... funky with a tablet) for much, then it probably isn't for you. Mine's a convertable, and I rarely put it in tablet mode.
Prices have come down on tablets a lot since I got my tablet last year, though. Now you can get the equivalent of my $2000 tablet for about $1200. I had to sacrifice some power to get the tablet, but you may not.
Also, I'd recommend waiting for Vista to come out (or plan to upgrade), if you're thinking about a tablet. They are supposed to be improving some of the features. And the 2007 OneNote is much better than the 2003 version.
Archade
Azer Paladin
UselessTriviaMan
Explorer
Well, since we're here - My entire campaign is on Obsidian Portal. I use a laptop as part of my GM screen at the table, and that site has been a fantastic tool for me to organize my campaign for both myself and my players.
Similar Threads
